On this episode of New Twerl, the new documentary Get the Jew, The Crown Heights Riot

Revisited sheds light on the worst anti-Semitic riot in American history,

which occurred in New York City in 1991.

After a car crash in which a hisitic Jewish driver accidentally hit and killed a black child,

rioters set up on the local Jewish neighborhood in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Jews were attacked in the streets, along with Jewish stores, homes, and cars.

One Hasidic man was stabbed to death.

Mayor David Dinkins in the New York Police Department

allowed the riot to rage for three full nights,

egged on by racial provocateurs,

while many in the media played down or excused

the anti-Semitism at the heart of the violence. The film is part of a new series produced by the Wall Street Journal's opinion

docs series and is available on YouTube.com. Here to talk about the film. I'm really pleased to welcome back my

guest and good friend Michael Pac. He is a documentary filmmaker and the

president and CEO of Palladium Pictures.

Michael, welcome and thank you for joining me on Newt's world.

Thank you for having me on Newt.

Michael, can you describe Crown Heights historically for us?

I think that's a good question because the background of

Crown Heights is important to understand the Crown Heights riots of

1991. So Crown Heights Brooklyn had historically been a Jewish neighborhood.

And there were different sects and kinds of Jews that were there, conservative reformed Orthodox.

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